Thomas Buxton
Year of Call: 1983 LLB (Nottingham)
Languages: Fluent Spanish
Affiliations: South Eastern Circuit
Appointments: Gray’s Inn Advocacy Trainer since 2003
Specialist Areas: General Crime, Serious Crime, Homicide, Serious Violent Offences, Firearms, Large Drugs Related Offences, Sexual Offences, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, MTIC Fraud , Money Laundering, DTI Offences, Regulatory & Compliance Work, Police Disciplinary Tribunals, Public Enquiries
BiographyThomas Buxton is an exclusively criminal practitioner who both prosecutes and defends, providing specialist advice and advocacy at all stages of criminal, disciplinary and confiscation proceedings. His main areas of practice include:
Fraud/regulatory investigation and prosecutions
Commercial fraud cases and associated areas such as asset restraint
Forfeiture and recovery proceedings
Money laundering
Controlled drugs
VAT fraud
Murder/manslaughter
Child cruelty and sexual abuse
He has more recently been specialising in fraud work, both prosecuting for the Serious Fraud Office, and defending in serious and complex cases, regularly as leading junior.
Thomas served for three years on the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council, and previously as a member of the Panel of Prosecuting Advocates for the Bar Council.
CasesFRAUD
SFO v Flint, Furr & Williamson (Prosecuting the directors of a group of companies for fraudulent trading which took place over a number of years)
SFO v Sampson & Others (Defending in a Landfill Tax fraud case)
R v Faruq & Others (Immigration and benefits fraud on a massive scale. Total benefit alleged in confiscation proceedings exceeded £50m)
R v Stirling & Turner (VAT carousel fraud)
SFO v DaCosta & Others (Unauthorised underwriting and regulatory breaches alleged against a reinsurance company)
MANSLAUGHTER
R v Roberts (Defended a young woman on a charge of manslaughter. London Hackney cab driver collapsed and died a short time after an altercation involving the defendant. Expert evidence and submissions on causation)
DRUG TRAFFICKING
R v Maitre & Others (Defended in a trial alleging conspiracies to import cocaine and cannabis into the UK on an unprecedented scale. Principal witness was a ‘supergrass’ with links to Colombian cartels and the French and Spanish underworld)
REPORTED CASES
R v Effik [1995] (1AC 307 HL. Admissibility of intercepted material – consideration and interpretation of the Interception of Communications Act 1985)
PPP v Warren [1993] (AC 319 HL. Road Traffic – evidential testing – samples required from motorists arrested on suspicion of drink-driving)
OTHER
R v Anglin (Instructed as leading counsel to defend in the Grand Court, Cayman Islands)
R v Ebanks (Defending serious charges also in the Grand Court, Cayman Islands)